Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Landing a good line coach didn't end Herman Hickman's plaintive cries of "I have no line!" After feasting since 1943 on a flock of corn and cornpone-fed Cadet candidates, it must have been a sad realization to meet a group of linemen who didn't all weigh over 200 pounds...
...case any farmers missed the point, Harry Truman blamed the G.O.P. directly when the price of Illinois corn dropped from $2.29 to 96? a bushel in September. Ahead of and behind the President, Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan also roamed the Midwest, hammering home the same argument. Candidate Dewey, on the other hand, failed to give any specific assurances on the future of price supports. Besides, many farmers just liked the prosperity they had gained in Democratic years...
...acre while Denmark gets 50. India's rice yield is only 750 Ibs. an acre, one-quarter as good as Japan's. A little fertilizer and some simple improvements in agricultural technique would make a huge difference to India's food supply. If Indians liked corn and produced 136.24 bushels an acre, like...
Through Tin Pan Alley (which isn't an alley but a scattered industry), the good news spread. Publishers who had been hoarding their best tunes for months, trying to keep them out of the "corn belt" (i.e., giving them to harmonica outfits to record), were riffling through their desk drawers. Bandleaders were set for hurried rehearsals; Crosby, Como and Sinatra weren't straying too far from their telephones. Last week, after ten months, it looked as if the record ban was about...
...sorry-example of Hollywood's new trick of using authentic backgrounds to dress up synthetic stories. The scene is a battle-scarred German city where the U.S. Army is trying war criminals. Through the realistic setting, it is all too easy to spot the old movie corn and the gimmick...